Farrowing due soon

Daisy, the most recent addition to our herd of pedigree Berkshire pigs, has come inside to the farrowing pen to be fed up for a week or two before farrowing. I brought her in with the help of the Wee ‘Un, although he doesn’t get to herd her as he does with the sows that have been with us since they were weaners. He’s very adept at getting gates lined up to settle on their hinges, at walking along one side of a fence with a feed bucket while the sow follows on the other side, and at opening or closing gates exactly when needed.

Feed preparation station

We’ve been weighing and mixing livestock feed on any available surface, but no longer. We were given a melamine cupboard that was in a fairly ropey state with no top surface, so I decided to turn it into a feed preparation station. First, I assembled the pieces we did have into something approaching a cupboard before glueing and screwing that together.